Coin receptacle and delivering device.



. A; E. SMITH. COIN RBGEPTAGLE ANDDELIVERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1907.

911,274. Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

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' ALLEN E. sMI'rII, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs.

COIN RECEPTACLE AND DELIVERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Feb. 2, 1909.

Application filed September 30, 1907. Serial No. 395,083.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ALLEN E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coin Receptacles and Delivering Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof M I The purpose of. this invention is to provide an improved device, particularly adapted for us e'in connection with telephones, for holding a supply of coins or slugs of suitable size or denomination to be deposited upon the use. of thetelephone, the construction being such as to render obvious at all times the number of coins. in the receptacle'and the number which have been withdrawn therefrom after filling, and adapted to be mounted upon a telephone directory card,

and particularly to render the entire device very simple and of cheap construction and easily operated. I c

It consists in the features of construction In the drawings :-'Figure'1 is a front elevation of the device constituting my invention mounted upon a telephone directory card. Fig.1 2 isaside elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3is a section-at the line 3 3 on Fig. 1

showing theeoin tube in 'coin delivering po- .jsition. Fig. et is a section at the line 4 l on Fig. 2. 5 side elevation similar to Fig. ,2 showing a slightly modified form .of the device; I I I Upona directoycard, A, adapted to be mounted onthe wall or otherwise hung vertically, there is vertically mounted a bracket,

. B,- having rigid head and foot members, B

.and: 13 respectively, between which the coin-tube, C, is held,'being suspended from its upper-end upon the head member, I3 and when normal position, overhanging the'foot member, B the tube beingbottomless except as the foot member, B affords a bottom 7 or support for a pile of coins which maybe contained in the tube, being inserted at the open upper end. In the form shown in Figs.-1, 2 and 8, the tube is engaged with the head memberfor suspension therefrom by means of lateral eyes,

- C C engaged bylaterally projecting pintles Z2 6 on the head member. The foot diameter of the tube at the normal position of the latter to stop thetube against swinging further forward than the position at which it properly overhangs the foot memher for adapting the latter to support the pile of coins in the tube. The forward half of the tube at the lower end to a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the coin to be delivered, is cut away, as seen at 0 to form a mouth for the delivery of coins. From the foot member, B a short spur, 6 projects upward, being struck up from the substance of the foot member at a position substantially in line with the middle point of the rear wall of the tube at the normal position of the latter, said spur being in length substantially equal to the thickness of the single coin to be ejected, andtherefore standing up just back of the edge of the bottom coin of'the pile, so that when the tube is swung rearward at its lower end, said bottom coin is restrained from moving with the tube, and thereby protrudes from the mouth, 0 when the tube is at the rear position seen in Fig. 3, the coin indicated at m in Fig. 3 in that po sition being still supported on the foot member, B butexposed above the same in front of the rear-swung tube. For convenience in withdrawing the coin, the foot member is hollowed at the forward edge, as seen at B, so that the coin is exposed both above and below to the grasp of the fingers of the operator, and being withdrawn, the tube by gravity resumes its normal position, the next coin above the coin withdrawn falling to the bottom as soon as the tube swinging forward carries the pile of coins therein past the spur, 6 In order I not to depend entirely upon the gravity in the tube. In the form shown in Fig. 5, the tube is suspended at its forward side upon the forward end of the head member, B slightly different in form from the head member in the other figures, the rear side of the tube being stopped against the under side of said head member at b, sald head member itself being preferably formed with a bow, 6*, giving it considerable elasticity, so that it will itself operate to elastically resist the rearward swinging of the tube and tend to restore it to its normal position. In this construction, since the head member obstructs the upper end of the tube, a slot, C may be provided near the upper end for the admission of coins. The front side of the tube has a vertical series of apertures, 0 through which the contents of the tube can be observed. These apertures are preferably spaced apart from each other not more than the thickness of one coin, so that it is possible always to count the coins exposed, and the apertures also serve as graduation marks of a scale by which the number of coins contained may at all times be indicated; as for example, the distance from center to center of the apertures being the thickness of five coins, the center of the bottom aperture being a like distance from the foot member, the middle point of each of the apertures becomes a graduation mark indicating a multiple of five coins contained below it in the tube.

I claim 1. A coin-holding and delivering device, comprising a vertically mounted bracket having rigidly projecting head and foot members; a tube suspended from the head member extending substantially to and normally overhanging the foot member, with range of swinging movement at its lower end over the surface of said foot member having a rigid upstanding spur at the side of the lower end of the tube toward which the latter can swing, and means for stopping the tube against swinging in the opposite direction.

2. A coin-holding and delivering device comprising a vertically mounted bracket having rigidly projecting head and foot members; a bottomless tube suspended from the head member extending substantially to and normally overhanging the foot member with range of swinging movement at its lower end over the surface of the foot member, said foot member constituting the coin support and having lateral guards between which the tube swings and a rigid spur upstanding at the side of the lower end of the tube toward which the latter can swing.

A coin-holding and delivering device, comprising a vertically mounted bracket having rigidly projecting lead and foot members; a coin-holding tube suspended from the head member extending substantially to and normally overhanging the foot member with range of swinging movement at its lower end over the surface of the latter, the tube being cut away at the forward side for a distance from the bottom substantially equal to the thickness of the coin to be delivered, and being notched at the middle point of the rear side, the foot member having a rigid spur substantially equal in length to the thickness of the coin to be ejected, upstanding at the rear side in position to pass through the notch as the tube is swung inward.

4;. A coin-holding and delivering device comprising a vertically mounted bracket having rigidly projecting h ad and foot members; a coin tube suspended from the head. member extending substantially to and overhanging the foot member with range of swinging movement at the lower end over the surface of the latter, and being cut away at the forward side of the lower end to form a coin-delivering mouth, the foot member having lateral guards for the lower end of the tube which project in front of the same above the mouth for preventing swinging movement in that direction, and having a rigid spur upstanding at the side opposite the mouth for ejecting the coin through the mouth when the tube is thus swung.

5. A coin-holding and delivering device, comprising a vertically mounted bracket having rigidly projecting head and foot members; a tube suspended from the head member extending substantially to and normally overhanging the foot member with a range of swinging movement at the lower end over the surface of the foot member the latter having upturned lateral guards and stops for preventing the swinging of the tube in the opposite direction from such position, and having a spring device for elastically holding the tube against such stops and returning it to such position when displaced therei'irom, the tube at the forward side being stopped short of the foot member a distance equal to the thickness of the coin to be delivered, the foot member haw ing an upstanding spur at the rear side of the tube equal substantially to the same thickness for ejecting the coin at the for- "ard side of the tube when the latter is swung rearward.

G. A coin-holding and delivering device, comprising a vertically mounted bracket having integral rigidly projecting head and foot members", a coin tube suspemled from the head member extending substantially to and normally overhanging the foot member with range of swinging movement at the lower end over the surface of the foot member the latter having projections for stopping the swinging movement in the op posite direction, the tube being engaged with the head member at the forward side and stopped thereagainst at the rear side, said my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day head member being a spring arm reacting of September, 1907. on the tube to normally hold it pressed for- Ward at the lower end against said stops 5 and yielding to permit it to swing rearward Witnesses:

from that position. I WALTER EYERS,

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set M. GERTRUDE ADY.

ALLEN E. SMITH. 

